The city of Midland collected a record amount of sales tax in one month during the month of February.

The $4,360,197 in sales tax revenue from the state Comptroller’s Office surpassed the previous record of $4,006,408, set in December 2013. This month’s figure also reflects an 8.93 percent, or $353,789, increase from February 2013.

The total also reflects how much the community has grown and the type of money being spent in Midland. The $4.36 million collection is not only the largest one-month collection in the city’s history, but it is greater than any fiscal quarter prior to fiscal year 2006.

Along with the largest collection in the city’s history, the city collected more than $1 million for both the Midland Development Corp. and to pay off the debt of the sports complex.

Year-to-date total sales tax revenue of $17,797,992 for fiscal year 2013-14 is up 10.08 percent, or a $1,629,038 increase, from last year’s totals at this time. Last year, the city reported collecting more than $38 million in sales tax — an increase of more than $15 million from fiscal year 2010 and an increase of nearly $26 million from fiscal year 2000. If the current trend continues, a $40 million sales tax collection for fiscal year 2014 is a possibility. If that happens, it would be more than double the collection from eight years ago.

Sales tax revenue is generated by sales tax income from two months prior to collection; February collection is based on December sales.